Category Archives: Code

Via Slashdot, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago has figured out how to game foursquare with 9 lines of Perl with standard Perl libraries. #!/usr/bin/perl -W use IO::Socket; srand; sleep(rand()*600); my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr=>'api.foursquare.com', PeerPort=>80, Proto =>'tcp', … Continue reading →

Another bit of random coding from Fuzzy Tolerance. I have a wiki page where I put a lot of tutorial videos for our division. Some are hosted on YouTube because they are about something general or about something related to … Continue reading →

The W3C Web Storage API is a specification for persistent data storage of key-value pair data in Web clients. It was originally part of the HTML5 spec and you’ll still hear it called HTML5 storage a lot online, but it … Continue reading →

I have always been fascinated by things I suck at, and design is way up on my suck list. I’ve become much better over time, but boasting about that would be like boasting about progressing to a cushier level of … Continue reading →

This is a bit random, but since it took me an embarrassing number of attempts to get this to work I thought I’d post a quick how-to on getting MediaWiki to authenticate to Microsoft Active Directory. First you’ll need to … Continue reading →